University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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DR. EUGENE C. WINSLOW Class Advisor’s Message The various commencement speakers at your graduation exercises will remind you that you, as college graduates, will become the leaders of our country in the future. None of us can argue with this assumption because past experience has proven that college graduates excel in the professions, in industry, and in most of the other phases of our national endeavor. On the other hand, college graduates have refused to accept an important challenge that faces them. I speak of the future that faces college gradu- ates in politics. Too many educated persons regard the term politician” as having an unsavory connotation. In steering clear of partisan politics, college graduates are allow- ing governmental control on a local level to go by default. The greatest destructive force in our democratic system of government is the lack of informed leadership within the political parties and within governments on the local level. Our democratic system of government is too important to allow its leadership to be captured by incompetent per- sons as the result of the default of informed people. You can give no greater service to your country than that of entering politics on a part-time or full-time basis at an early stage in your careers. DR. EUGENE C. WINSLOW Class Advisor 9

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE To Members of the Class of 1958: For a number of years the editor has invited me to give a personal message to the senior class in the columns of the Grist. This year I am especially grateful for the privilege because, with the time of my retirement approaching, it will be my last message as President of the Uuniversity to the members of the graduating class. This means that we share something in common. We are both graduating” from the University at the same time! Hence I shall always feel associated with the Class of 1958. While commencement next June will mark the termination of our full time engagement in University affairs, of course this does not and should not mean our permanent separation. I hope all of you as alumni will keep alive and close your ties with your alma mater, always to feel a sense of indebted- ness for what it has done for you, of dedication to its best interests, and of responsibility for its good name and its future welfare. Just as you must feel that your past four years on this campus have been rich and rewarding ones, so I can testify that my seventeen years at the University of Rhode Island have been equally so. There is one difference between your situation and mine. While I shall now be looking back upon the main part of my professional career, all of you have yours to look forward to — in one of the most interesting and stimulating times in the world’s history. In entering upon your chosen careers, I am sure you will find your four years of college a priceless preparation for meeting the challenges of the future. May life’s richest blessings ever attend you! ) — CARL R. WOODWARD DR. CARL R. WOODWARD President J

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Dr. James P. Adams, Chairman Miss Katherine M. Casserly Walter F. Farrell Mrs. Jose M. Ramos Robert S. Sherman Frederick C. Tanner Dr. Michael F. Walsh Albert L. Owens, George A. Ballentine, Olga P. Brucher, Mason H. Campbell, Harold W. Browning, Carl R. Woodward, John F. Quinn. George E. Osborne, Herber Young- ken, Evelyn B. Morris, Stephen T. Crawford, Louise White, James W. Eastwood. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL